Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was the first
American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A
versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women,
which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and
screen scenarios to fiction, journalism, and war reportage. She was the
wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life and Fortune. (Click
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A hospital is no place to be sick.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in
the mirror of some woman's eyes.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more
often his nursery.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century
than any other single factor.

But if God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a
brain?

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it
should end there.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss
them terribly because they helped define me.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man; thought has no sex, one
either thinks or one does not.

I'm in my anecdotage.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but
the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous
utterances, and the day's good deed.

It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature
attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the
romance, the idealism, that- being what it is- it falls so short of in
fact and in deed.

It is ridiculous to think you can spend your entire life with just one
person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands
would do it.

It's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good
reason.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the
frictions of social contacts.

Love is a verb.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while
you're being miserable.

Nature abhors a virgin- a frozen asset.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured,
taped, or put into a computer.

The oppressed never free themselves- they do not have the necessary
strengths.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.(on
campaigning)

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown
hopeless about them.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man
appreciate his wife.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you
know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Widowhood is a fringe benefit of marriage.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and
spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep
with your mother.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about
living a Christian life in a democratic world.